UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting how can i make a dynamically created variable name?

im having some trouble getting the content of variables like $Forum12Moderator and $Forum15Moderator... id like to be able to build the variable name using a counter variable. can i do this?

tks in advance

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it's a matter of time and knowledge

You can but you don't want to. Soft references are a bad thing.

Read why here

But if you must anyway:

$counter = 7;
${Forum . $counter . Moderator} = 'Mark';
# or ${"Forum$counterModerator"} = 'Mark';
print $Forum7Moderator;

I don't recommend you do it though. Build a hash instead.

--mark

ok, tks mark. i gotta say that i dont know how to build a hash, but this will help me.

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it's a matter of time and knowledge

Bad Baby

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:: Who is Andy?

I am wondering, mark, why you told him how to do that instead of showing him how to do a hash? because, frankly, hehe, soft references aren't good.
Anyways..If i had time, i'd show ya.

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err.. just a question..

${Forum . $counter . Moderator} = 'Mark'; or ${'Forum' . $counter . 'Moderator'} = 'Mark';?

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it's a matter of time and knowledge

Use variables like $ForumModerator[12]
and $ForumModerator[15] instead of
$Forum12Moderator and $Forum15Moderator.


In addition to being much safer,
more reliable, and mor efficient than your method, this technique is also
more powerful because
you can easily get a list off all the
forum moderators by simply writing
@ForumModerator, which is
impossible with your method.

This message has been edited by Dominus on January 23, 2001 at 12:50 AM

im opening ubb cgi's mods.file..

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it's a matter of time and knowledge